Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to put the vehicle into second gear most of the way as we proceeded slowly but with great steadiness and sureness up the steep incline , the hill Arsenio and Osvaldo had walked to their lessons as boys , up which Martinho had run to Fr Molloy the day they burnt the FAKINTIL files while Danu lay concealed in smoke below , the hill Rosa claimed with scorn never to have walked in her life , except she was strongly there , too , in spirit . |
| 2 | But he was so close , his other hand pulling her hard against his naked chest , his face so near to her own that it was difficult for her to breathe — so difficult that she had to open her mouth to draw in air only to find that he 'd taken advantage of the opportunity to deepen his kiss into one of familiarity . |
| 3 | The alternative to these difficulties is to use the opportunities created by enlargement fundamentally to alter the structures of the EEC . |
| 4 | Chelsea 's other senior keeper , Kevin Hitchcock , is struggling to recover from injury , and the club have until midday today to sort out a new signing . |
| 5 | A HUGE advertising campaign gets under way today to promote the Government 's £5 billion third BT sale . |
| 6 | He and John Barnes travelled into Weirwold together to catch the train . |
| 7 | Fortunately there is no need to rely on occupation alone to assess social and economic status . |
| 8 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 9 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin called on parliament yesterday to sack its chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , while Mr Khasbulatov accused the president of playing games over the fate of Russia . |
| 10 | Finally the lawyers for the families went to court again to try to obtain sight of at least some of the evidence against their clients . |
| 11 | Not always knowing what to expect makes some of the physical and emotional changes associated with pregnancy harder to deal with — things like feeling more vulnerable , being easily upset , and crying a lot , are easier to take if you know this is a normal , if disturbing , aspect of pregnancy . |
| 12 | Put ½ lb. of fine dried apricots to soak in water just to cover for a couple of hours — or overnight if it is more convenient . |
| 13 | Hilton recognises that while it is apparently unreasonable for man governed by reason utterly to devalue himself and attribute any good things which he does to Christ it is nevertheless the route to true identity , away from the temporal accidents which attract the self , to its essential which is discovered in Christ himself . |
| 14 | Though their long history from the early Cambrian to the present different groups of articulate brachiopods rose to prominence only to decline . |
| 15 | RETIRED teacher George Calvert went to court yesterday to try to stop a noise he says is disturbing God 's peace — the local church bells . |
| 16 | CHEFS travelled in convoy recently to sacrifice their headgear on the stones of Tiananmen Square ( left ) . |
| 17 | A NORTH-EAST solicitor appeared in court yesterday to face deception charges over legal aid . |